Didi Herman

An Unfortunate Coincidence

Jews, Jewishness, and English Law

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the depiction of Jews and Jewishness in modern English law, revealing the role of racial and religious understandings in legal decision-making. It challenges both assumptions about tolerance and neutrality in English law and any simple narrative of anti-Semitism, charting the ambivalent status of Jewish identity in the law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780199229765
• ISBN-10: 0199229767
• Artikelnr.: 40260176

Autorenporträt

Didi Herman is Professor of Law & Social Change at the University of Kent, UK. She has published widely on the subject of Jews, Jewishness and English law, and is also the author of Rights of Passage: Struggles for Lesbian and Gay Legal Equality, (University of Toronto Press, 1994), The Antigay Agenda: Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right, (University of Chicago Press, 1997), and, with Doris Buss, Globalizing Family Values: The Christian Right's International Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: 'An Unfortunate Coincidence': Race, Nation, and Character
* 3: If Only I Knew: Race and Faith in the Law of Trusts
* 4: 'She is and Will Forever Remain a Jew': Children and the Courts
* 5: 'We Live in the Age of the Holocaust of the Jews'
* 6: 'The Wandering Jew Has No Nation': Jewishness and Race Relations
Law
* 7: 'The Christian Church Will Admit Children Regardless of Who Their
Parents Are': The Jewish Free School Case and Other Final Thoughts